Houses

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Architect Conrad Johnston’s new home in the Sydney suburb of Balmain is a confident synthesis of old and new that looks back and forward in time. The house is one of a pair of semis originally built in 1972 on a steep waterfront site on the Parramatt

John Ellway’s Three House can be found on one of the beautiful streets that launch off the ridges into the tumbling topography of the inner suburb of Paddington, Brisbane. John met clients Boon and Sarah in early 2017 after a trip to Penang, the smal

There’s something special about the sunlight in Perth. Shepherding the day, it reaches the west coast having crossed Australia’s great land mass, ripening fruits in the wake of the Darling Scarp before puckering the bare shoulders of walkers, blindin

Stephanie McGann Could you tell me a little about yourselves and what you wanted in your new home? Adam Mason Kerry and I have been renovating houses together since the late 1980s and we’ve gained a great deal of experience in energy-efficient and p

Globalization has meant that everything we desire as a consumer is available at any time and in any quantity. The events of the past year, however, have put a sharp focus on what is available locally – we’ve been shopping local, exercising in our nei

This story begins with a house made from apricot-hued brick on a quiet street in Brighton East, the unceded ancestral lands of the Boon Wurrung people. The house, designed in the mid-1960s by a family who would live there in one form or another for t

In Richard Scarry’s books animals are anthropomorphized: pigs drive buses, foxes are policewomen and goats drive delivery trucks full of watermelons. I was reminded of these books one morning sitting in a park south of Sydney when a truck drove past

After years of working within a traditional architectural framework, including specifying new materials from all over the world, Clare Kennedy felt it was time to do things differently. It was an encounter with Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophies that insp

This collection of furniture, homewares and lighting evokes memories of the hopeful era of mid-century modern, with re-issues of classic chair designs and contemporary interpretations of modernist designs. Find more residential products: selector.co

Like many Australian university students, I found myself wandering through Europe midway through my studies. Happily, I landed an internship at Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). Balancing a lifestyle of 12 or so hours of work a d

Crawling up the side of Mt Coot-tha, at the edge of the western Brisbane suburb of Bardon, this new family home by Nielsen Jenkins responds to the realities of building among the trees with the benefit of decades of familiarity with the site it occup

“I’m very interested in observing how people dwell, play and work,” says architect Maria Danos, principal of Maria Danos Architecture. “If this [pandemic] year has taught us anything, it’s that there are a lot of convergences in those different aspec

In a world groaning under the weight of human excess and consumption, Minima is a breath of fresh air. This modular micro home is designed by Sydney architectural studio Trias and built by Fabprefab on the New South Wales Central Coast. It combines t

Freadman White is an intentionally small practice with a wider than expected reach. While working on the usual younger practice’s fare of new houses, house renovations and extensions, husband and wife Michael White and Ilana Freadman and their small

In Tasmania, as elsewhere, it is well documented that splendid houses were built by pioneer settlers such as George Read (Redlands in Plenty) and Claudio Alcorso (Moorilla, now MONA). However, few know about Robin Boyd’s house, also in Plenty, on the

Surrounding Canberra’s epicentre of politics and policy is an abundant bush landscape studded with unassuming mementos of Australian residential design. Built on Ngunnawal Country, from timber and brick, and entangled by native plantings, the suburba